Tomorrow morning when we wake

[lasergrenades]

Characters: Pepper Potts, Marie Kreutz, Yami no Bakura and you!
Date: Throughout January
Location: Sky Sector, KPD Headquarters, and around Keeliai
Situation: Pepper is hanging out with friends and helping with storm recovery, enjoying the start of the new year
Warnings/Rating: None yet


A. Jade Dojo | Early January | Bakura

So they're still trying to figure out what exactly they are to each other and how this whole 'relationship' thing works, but Pepper is content with that situation. She'd worked with Tony to make a customized senet board for Bakura's birthday, but she'd left the pieces uncarved so he could make them himself and perhaps show her how to carve as well. Plus, she didn't really remember how to play, and Bakura had already proven to be an adept teacher. She stayed after the dojo closed, as had started to become habit, and wandered back towards his apartment.

B. House Spicy Iron Dragon | During the storm | Marie

Well, the weather is terrible. Pepper has seen the remnants of hurricanes that have petered out in New York, and a few really bad storms, but this definitely takes the cake. She probably won't admit it, but it makes her a bit uncomfortable. Between the weird weather and not being able to go outside much because of it, she needs something to do with her hands when she's not working. Marie had done some baking before she left, and Pepper asked if her returned housemate would be willing to spend time in the kitchen. It would be fun, and tasty, and hopefully give them time to get to know each other better.

C. Healer's Guild | Early January | Raine

As with Valdis' Shadow test, Pepper had been alerted to Raine's (albeit with a lot less urgency by Vee this time). She can't help but wonder what Raine saw - if it had the same sort of bone-rattling effect on her. Each test was different, wholly individualized, and Pepper is nothing if not curious. Raine might appreciate the comparison as a scientist and a mage, too. As has become something of a habit, Pepper brings treats along with her when she arrives at Raine's office, and knocks gently.

D. Around Keeliai | After the storm | Open

In the aftermath of the storm, there's a lot of repair work that needs doing, and once again Pepper's suit is perfect for the task. She can be seen wherever the worst damage is, pulling apart structures so waterlogged they would become rotten before too long, or helping with new construction. She keeps the faceplate open most of the time, even though the kedan have largely gotten used to the armor by now. Even though there's a lot of work to be done, she remains chipper and does whatever she can to help.

E. KPD Headquarters | Throughout the month | Open

Pepper continues to work diligently, though her schedule remains a bit erratic. She likes taking a variety of shifts. The early part of the month is fairly quiet, but she's preparing reports with Valdis and Gene to give to the Council as part of the push for laws and policies that has arisen.

After the storm passes, things get busier. In the wake of any disaster, there was potential for crime. When she wasn't out helping with repairs herself, Pepper was organizing patrols and doing logistics for aid parties, coordinating with other groups in the city like the Healer's Guild and the Council so they weren't reinventing the wheel.

F. Midnight Hotel | Beginning of January | Valdis

Pepper is still a bit worried about Valdis. Although she seems to have gotten her head on straight again in terms of immediate fallout from the failed Shadow test (and the fact that she survived was impressive), it must have left a mark. Pepper had passed, and it left a mark. Cookies in hand, she goes to see Valdis at the Hotel, sporting a smile but not trying to hide the fact that she's here for a specific purpose when she knocks.

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[ten_zero]

Valkyr is out helping cleanup too. She doesn't have quite the same utility that Mag did under the circumstances, but she's still strong. She can break through rubble with ease, and her ziplines give her some other functionality. She runs into Pepper, at first not recognizing the suit until she sees Pepper's face. "Pepper. I didn't recognize you-" not that the recognition would go both ways. Valkyr had never met Pepper, Mag had. Valkyr's voice was different, even if it functioned similarly to Mags, the way it emanated from her body rather than coming from a localized speaker. But she was unmistakably a warframe, just as Mag had been.

[lasergrenades]

"Uh."

Pepper took a moment to look Valkyr over, trying to figure out how she knew whomever or whatever this was. It didn't take long for her to connect the dots to a similar figure, Mag, and then from there to Bisi. There were only so many Foreigners on the turtle that it could be.

"Right back at you," she said finally, her confusion replaced by a smile. "This is the armor Tony made for me." Pepper sounded quite proud of it. "Did you get a new Warframe?"

[ten_zero]

"Yes!" The circumstances were complicated and unpleasant. "Her name is Valkyr."

"Your armor has impressive capabilities."

[lasergrenades]

"Valkyr. Huh. Cool!" Pepper couldn't help but think of Vee, and her ka made a quiet grumbling at the back of her mind about a lack of similarities between them.

She positively beamed at the comment about her suit. "Thanks. Tony's a literal genius; he made like a dozen of these things back home. It took me more than a year to bug him into giving me one, but I'd operated his other suits remotely for most of that so I was still able to help Team Iron Man. It's called Rescue. Or I am, when I wear it. Superhero identities and all that."

[ten_zero]

"'Team Iron Man?'" she asked. Ah, superheroes. There were a lot of them around, it seemed.

"Your super hero identity isn't a secret one, though?"

[lasergrenades]

"It was, up until right around the time I came to Keeliai. I'm Rescue, Tony is Iron Man, and Rhodey is War Machine. We were in a fight to save the world, and Tony lost his helmet," Pepper explained. "He's sort of famous all on his own, so everyone knew who he was instantly. And Rhodey and I decided to take off ours, too. You know, solidarity. At least, that's what Tony tells me. He's from after I am."

[ten_zero]

"I haven't met Rhodey. Tony helped me too, actually. He helped me repair Mag when I first found her, and helped me create a new Transference method."

[lasergrenades]

"Rhodey's never been to Keeliai," Pepper supplied, wistful. "No one here's met him, which sucks. He's super cool." She tilted her head at Valkyr. "Yeah, I remember Tony talking about working on the Warframe. What's Transference?"

[ten_zero]

"It's a connection, between me and my warframe. Before, I needed to be asleep, but not anymore."

Bisi steps out of Valkyr, but unlike with Tony or Pepper's armor where it opens up to reveal a hollow interior from where they control it, its more like Bisi materializes from within Valkyr, melting out of her chassis and stepping out into the open air. Behind her, Valkyr falls to the floor in a kneeling posture.

[lasergrenades]

Pepper's eyes widened when Bisi basically melted out of the Warframe. "Oooh, wow. That is super cool. Also a little freaky, but those things go together sometimes." She'd had some bad experiences with people being able to phase shift through things. "That's really neat, though, now you don't need to be separated. And you can walk on your own again!" She'd missed that memo apparently.

[ten_zero]

"Yes. It really just came down to time. My disability was a side effect of extended cryostasis. And a visit to Milyn's clinic seemed to speed that up."

[lasergrenades]

Pepper's eyebrows went up; she was still a little skeptical about Milyn. "Really? What did she do to help?" Unspoken was what did Milyn do to help that Raine or Tony couldn't.

[ten_zero]

"She had a tonic that let me view happenings that occured in my home plane, and it accelerated my physical therapy."